Vera+-+Christine

Hello. My name is Christina Chen and I am 17 years old. I was raised by a single mother and grew up with and older brother. I love to read just to pass time and to be with my friends. I am a very shy person. I have been to Taiwan but I would really love to visit China one day. My mother speaks Chinese and she was born and raised in Taiwan, I also can speak Taiwanese. Just a little bit about my family. My older brother is almost 20, he would be 20 in December. My mother is really beautiful and everyone says we don't look alike. But, my brother and I look alike. I hope to one day learn Chinese; speaking and writing fluently. I am currently taking Chinese 1 at my school and I do hope to pursue in this language. I remember when I was a child, my mom always made me eat every little grain of rice in my bowl. My mom would always scare me with it because she always said if I didnt, then little flies would poop on my face and leave little black freckles. So as I grew up I ate every little grain that was possible in my bowl. Also everytime I look at my face I have a few black freckles and I would always think that it was the flies that pooped on my face.

It's very nice to meet you Vera, and thank you for you compliment. I am actually not all that beautiful but most asian women are. Don't put yourself down like that, I'm quite positive that you are very beautiful. I am actually full Chinese, I just don't look like I am. I shall put up a picture as fast as I can for you. I also am a slow reader but I still love doing it. By the way my name is actually Christina but everyone calls me Tina, you can call me whatever you like. **  **That was a very cute story of you when you were younger. I don't think it was a stupid thing at all for you to do what you have done, I would have done the exact same thing. It's better have more of something than to have less of something.
 * Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry that I don't know how to call you. Chirstine or Christina? My name is Huang Xiaoyu ( ****黄晓宇 ****  ) and you can call me Vera, my English name. I'm 18 and the only child in my family. I’m now a sophomore at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and majoring in English. I like playing basketball, but not good at it. I also love watching movies. I'm not very fond of reading because I read books very slowly.  **
 * I can't really remember much from when I was very young. But there is a stupid thing I can't forget forever. One day, my father gave me two yuan to buy eggplants. I had no idea how much was the eggplants. The seller told me zero point four yuan a kilo. It was very cheap. But there was another problem. How many kilos should I buy? At last I thought that since my father gave me two yuan, he meant that I should buy eggplants cost two yuan. So you can imagine that I went home with a big bag of eggplants. How stupid I was. Most of the eggplants were thrown later because they rot before we ate up them all. **
 * So you are one half English, one half Chinese? That you must be very beautiful! I can't wait to see your face now. I'm not good-looking and photogenic. If one day I find a beautiful photo of me, I will post it here or send it to you. **
 * The freckles' appearance is just coincidence. You have no need to worry about it. In fact some people think that the face with a few black freckles is beautiful. Maybe it was not totally right for your mother to scare you. But every Chinese was told to cherish grain when they are young. And there is also a Tang poem about it .We all recite it when we are just little child. Maybe you will learn it from your teacher sooner or later. **
 * I believe that you can one day speak and write Chinese fluently. If you have problems on Chinese, you can ask me at any time. I will do my best to help you. And I'm not good at English writing. So if there are some confusion or mistakes, please tell me. Thanks a lot. **
 * At last, please give my best wishes to your brother on his birthday. And I'm looking forward to you. Have a good weekend.

I will be going on winter break soon, what are your plans for break? Do you get a break for school? How is school going for you? Well my plans for break is to work and to hang out with my friends. My friends want to go snowboarding or skiing and I haven't done either so I am excited for that. Have you ever snowboarded or skiied? I am also going Christmas shopping with a few friends to get them a present. I don't know what to get my mother though because she never really tells me what she wants. I hear everything in China is really cheap. My dream is to go there and shop all day, when I make enough money of course. My mom wants me to go to Taiwan for the summer for a couple of weeks to spend time with my family. I really want to go but the plans haven't been set yet.

Well I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Also bundle up, it's going to be cold** **.  As Valentines approaches, I remember a lot of fond memories back in elementary school. I remember we would go home and customize our Valentines box that was originally a shoe box. The next day we would bring them to class and set them on our desks. Then we would pass out our Valentines candy and cards and put them in each others boxes. After this was all done we would have cookies and juice. We would sit around and talk to friends the whole time and basically that was our whole day of school. I would go home and empty out my Valentine box and see what I have gotten. We were so young that we don't even know what love was and I miss those days.**

**Hi, Tina! Sorry for that I haven't written a word for such a long time.** **I am very excited that you have such a wonderful plan for your vacation, and I really hope that I can have as meaningful a vacation as yours. Oh, I haven’t snowboarded or skied. It must be very hard to handle it, isn’t it? But it must also be very interesting. Is that right? I come from the Northwest China, which is covered with thick snow in the winter. It is very beautiful. I love snow, but I haven’t enough encourage taking those adventurous activities.** **I really hope that you can come to Beijing one day. Then I can show you around, and we go shopping together.** **To Valentines, I haven’t any memory because it haven’t associate with me so far. Otherwise I long more for Dragon Boat Festival than any other festival except Spring Festival, of cause. The reason is that at that time my dear mother always makes rice dumplings with all kinds of stuffs, especially shrimp. It’s very desirous. I really can’t wait for its coming.** **Ten days’ later my new semester will begin. At the beginning of it we are going to face an extremely important test-Test for English Major-Band 4(TEM-4), which decides whether we can get our Bachelors of Arts. Therefore, I will pay more attention to my English study at the first two months. But, I will write to you on this page as far as I can.** **Hope you have a meaningful vacation and a happy semester.** **Best wishes for you and your family.**